Colorado HB 1160 echoes what might be the only pro-liberty aspect of ObamaCare. (I did not expect any!) The New York Times reports:
Workplace wellness programs are becoming more and more popular as businesses try to rein in runaway health costs. At American Express, for instance, employees ...
The Daily Camera asked its editorial advisory board members their view of ObamaCare, formally HR 3590. My response was published in the March 27 edition:
ObamaCare is a scam. It further empowers politicians to dictate how you seek medical care and support charities. Politicians should ...
From David Hogberg in Investors Business Daily:
...It is worthwhile to take a comprehensive look at the freedoms we will lose [with health "reform" passed].
Of course, the overhaul is supposed to provide us with security. But it will result in skyrocketing insurance costs and physicians ...
The Denver Post reports that Colorado "House Bill 1008 would bar health insurance companies from using gender as a basis for setting different premium rates for men and women." Basically, insurers generally charge women higher premiums than men. Supporters of the bill want to make this illegal, and hence require ...
Paul Hsieh, MD reminds us of how, in both the House and Senate health care bills the so-called health care "reform" will further empower government officials to tell us what insurance we can and cannot have:
Under any system of mandatory insurance, the government must necessarily determine what constitutes an “acceptable” ...
The Wall Street Journal editorial board explains how so-called insurance exchanges of the House and Senate health care bills are government-run insurance:
Both bills [House and Senate] blow up the individual and small-business insurance markets, to be replaced with new "exchanges" in which people can buy heavily subsidized coverage and insurers ...
Summary: Community rating (CR) forbids insurance companies from risk-rating their premiums. Say someone supports this because it supposedly helps make insurance more affordable and accessible to higher-risk consumers. You could counter this with empirical evidence that it's not effective. But more effective is to expose CR as a stealth method to ...
